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The Swiss canton of Valais has just launched a so-called ‘local currency’ that is said to be aimed at encouraging businesses to do business locally, and thus helping their local economy to flourish. Valais, to afficionados of currency history, happens to be the canton in which a 19th-century counterfeiter after whom the new currency is apparently […]

Industry Polls

How much will regulatory and taxation changes relating to how investment and insurance products are sold, change your business model?

I expect to make major changes, which will include the letting go of staff, and/or closing offices